Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Waterloo—Wellington for his question. I know that in his past life he had a particular interest in heritage.
The statistics he quoted are of concern to all of us. That is why at the last meeting of federal-provincial ministers of culture we agreed to establish a pilot program with the Canadian Council of Ministers of Education at its request because it said that we needed more material to teach Canadian about our own history.
We are working with the CCME. At the next meeting of the ministers of education we hope to have a very concrete proposal for a clearinghouse for Canadiana that will be available to all Canadian students.